"I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me."

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Source : "16 Years of Exile Ending for Rostropovich" by Barbara Gamarekian, www.nytimes.com. January 27, 1990.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#Night Quotes #Years Quotes #Moscow Quotes

“I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.”

Source : "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.
“Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.”
“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”
“Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.”

Source : Bob Gill (2003). “Graphic Design As a Second Language”, p.38, Images Publishing
“I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, â€œI know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.”
“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”
“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.”

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